Nationalizing the body: the medical market, print, and daktari medicine
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Beteilige Person: Mukharji, Projit Bihari (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London Anthem Press 2009
Schriftenreihe:Anthem South Asian studies
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-335) and index
Healers in context : forgotten pioneers -- Daktari prints : the world of bengali printing and the multiple inscriptions of daktari medicine -- Contagious nationalism : contagion and the actualization of the nation -- Political plague : diagnosing a neo-Hindu modernity -- Endemic commerce : cholera and the medical market -- Dhatu dourbalya : the rhizoid pathologies of weakness -- Conclusion
"Nationalizing the Body' examines the different meanings of 'modern medicine' that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around 'modernity."
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 351 pages)
ISBN:1843313154
1843313235
9781843313151
9781843313236